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Modi doesn’t know the real strength of the nation, says Rahul Gandhi

Back after a 58-day sabbatical, Rahul Gandhi along with party president Sonia Gandhi addressed a rally on Sunday over the Land Acquisition Bill and against the Narendra Modi government policies that the party describes as “anti-farmer”.

Here are LIVE updates:

12:50 pm: Unseasonal rain has destroyed the lives of the farmers and the Modi government has done nothing: Sonia Gandhi.

12:43 pm: We have come together today to tell the Modi government that this is enough. We won’t let the farmers be ignored: Sonia Gandhi.

12:34 pm: Let me tell you how Modi won the election. He borrowed money from industrialists and now he will grab your land and give it to them: Rahul Gandhi.

The “kisan khet mazdoor” (farmer-farms labour) rally is being widely seen as a show of strength for a party desperate to reverse its sliding fortunes after a string of election drubbings, IANS reported.

Rahul Gandhi, who led a ‘padyatra’, a protest march in Bhatta Parsaul in 2011 against the then Mayawati government’s land acquisition in Uttar Pradesh, will be seen in the forefront once again at the farmers’ rally.

He was not seen in public for nearly two months since the budget session of parliament began on February 23. He returned on April 16 from an undisclosed destination where he was said to have retreated in a leave of absence from politics.